“The world is a little better and less unfair,” considered the Brazilian president, for whom Assange’s freedom is “a democratic victory and the fight for press freedom.”
This Tuesday, Brazilian President Lula da Silva praised the release of the founder of the Wikileaks portal, Julian Assange, considering it a “democratic victory” that leaves the world “less unjust.”
“The world is a little better and less unfair. today. Julian Assange is free after 1,901 days in prison,” the Brazilian head of state wrote on the social network X.
The world today is a little better and less unfair. Julian Assange is free after 1,901 days in prison. His release and return home, albeit belatedly, represent a democratic victory and the fight for press freedom.
— Lula (@LulaOficial) June 25, 2024
For Lula da Silva, the release of the founder of the Wikileaks portal and his return home, “although late, represent a democratic victory and the fight for press freedom.”
Lula da Silva was one of the main world leaders who, on several occasions, always showed his support for Julian Assange..
During his visit to London, in May 2023, where he attended the coronation of King Carlos III, Lula da Silva described it as “a shame that a journalist who revealed the traps of one State against others is sentenced to die in prison and that no one “One does nothing for one’s freedom.”
In August 2023, the Brazilian government received the father of the founder of the WikiLeaks portal at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, to whom it assured its “full support” for the freedom of his son.
Julian Assange, 52, was released by British authorities after 1,901 days of imprisonment in a high-security prison, awaiting a decision on his extradition to the United States, and had already spent seven years in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he took refuge to avoid being extradited to Sweden, where he was accused of rape, in a case that has since been archived.
Julian Assange released from British prison and can return to Australia
The founder of the Wikileaks digital portal was released on Monday from Belmarsh prison and transferred to Stansted airport, where he boarded a plane, following an agreement with the American justice system, under which he agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to illegally obtain and obtain. disclose confidential information related to the Defense and National Security of the United States.
Assange will appear on Wednesday in a court in the Mariana Islands, a US territory in the Pacific, to finalize a plea agreement reached with the US Department of Justice, and He will be sentenced to 62 months in prison, a sentence he already served in preventive detention in Londona decision that will allow him to return to his home country, Australia.
Since 2019, the United States has requested the extradition of Assange, accused of 18 crimes of espionage and computer intrusion, for the publication on the WikiLeaks portal of secret documents that in 2010 and 2011 exposed human rights violations committed by the US army in Iraq and in Afghanistan.
It was one of the largest leaks of confidential information in US history, revealing secrets about US diplomatic and military activities during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as data on detainees at the Guantánamo base, among others. .
Washington wanted to try Assange for revealing more than 700,000 confidential documents and he was charged under the Espionage Act of 1917, facing up to 175 years in prison, but on May 20 the High Court in London allowed him to appeal. extradition. ordered from the UK to the US.
Based in Sweden, WikiLeaks was founded in 2006 and became known for revealing confidential documents obtained from anonymous sources.
Source: Observadora
